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Image:0475.jpg|Oscar Alexander Lawson (artist), Ely (engraver), ''Rob[er]t Buist, Nurseryman & Florist'' (calling card), n.d.
 
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Image:0069.jpg|[[Samuel Vaughan]], Plan of the buildings and grounds of Mount Vernon, 1787.
 
Image:0069.jpg|[[Samuel Vaughan]], Plan of the buildings and grounds of Mount Vernon, 1787.
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Image:0340.jpg|Anonymous, “Declaration for Assurance No. 2049” Insurance Policy Drawings of Mount Vernon, 1803.
 
Image:0340.jpg|Anonymous, “Declaration for Assurance No. 2049” Insurance Policy Drawings of Mount Vernon, 1803.
  
 
Image:0861.jpg|[[William Dandridge Peck]], Plan of the botanic garden of Mr. Curtis, Newbury, Mass., Feb. 19, 1805.  
 
Image:0861.jpg|[[William Dandridge Peck]], Plan of the botanic garden of Mr. Curtis, Newbury, Mass., Feb. 19, 1805.  
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Image:0009.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, November 22, 1815.
 
Image:0009.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, November 22, 1815.
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Image:0064.jpg|Anonymous, "Map of Mr. Andrew Parmentier's Horticultural and Botanic Garden, at Brooklyn, Long Island, Two Miles From the City of New York," c. 1828.
 
Image:0064.jpg|Anonymous, "Map of Mr. Andrew Parmentier's Horticultural and Botanic Garden, at Brooklyn, Long Island, Two Miles From the City of New York," c. 1828.
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Image:0935.jpg|Alexander Walsh, "Plan of a Garden," in ''New England Farmer'' 19, no. 39 (Mar. 31, 1841): 308.
 
Image:0935.jpg|Alexander Walsh, "Plan of a Garden," in ''New England Farmer'' 19, no. 39 (Mar. 31, 1841): 308.
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Image:0823.jpg|[[Joshua Barney]], Map of the Hampton Estate, 1843.  
 
Image:0823.jpg|[[Joshua Barney]], Map of the Hampton Estate, 1843.  
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Image:0943.jpg|Anonymous, "Plan of a small Green-House" and "Section of the Same," in [[A. J. Downing]], ed., ''Horticulturist'' 3, no. 6 (December 1848): figs. 32 and 33.
 
Image:0943.jpg|Anonymous, "Plan of a small Green-House" and "Section of the Same," in [[A. J. Downing]], ed., ''Horticulturist'' 3, no. 6 (December 1848): figs. 32 and 33.
  
 
Image:0950.jpg|Anonymous, “Design for a Country House,” in [[A. J. Downing]], ed., ''Horticulturist'' 4, no. 6 (December 1849): pl. opp. p. 249.  
 
Image:0950.jpg|Anonymous, “Design for a Country House,” in [[A. J. Downing]], ed., ''Horticulturist'' 4, no. 6 (December 1849): pl. opp. p. 249.  
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Image:0790.jpg|[[Frances Palmer]], "Design for a Vinery & Green House," in [[William H. Ranlett]], ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 43.
 
Image:0790.jpg|[[Frances Palmer]], "Design for a Vinery & Green House," in [[William H. Ranlett]], ''The Architect'' (1851), vol. 2, pl. 43.
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Image:0333.jpg|G. & F. Bill (firm), Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon the home of Washington, c. 1859.
 
Image:0333.jpg|G. & F. Bill (firm), Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon the home of Washington, c. 1859.
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Image:0342.jpg|Edward Savage, ''The East Front of Mount Vernon'', c. 1787-92.
 
Image:0342.jpg|Edward Savage, ''The East Front of Mount Vernon'', c. 1787-92.
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Image:1983.jpg|[[Jeremiah Paul]], “Robert Morris’ Seat on Schuylkill,” July 20, 1794.
 
Image:1983.jpg|[[Jeremiah Paul]], “Robert Morris’ Seat on Schuylkill,” July 20, 1794.
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Image:0043.jpg|[[John Archibald Woodside]], ''Lemon Hill'', 1807.  
 
Image:0043.jpg|[[John Archibald Woodside]], ''Lemon Hill'', 1807.  
  
 
Image:0304.jpg|[[William Russell Birch]], "Woodlands, the Seat of Mr. Wm. Hamilton, Pennsylva.," 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, ''The Country Seats of the United States'' (2009), p. 69, pl. 14.
 
Image:0304.jpg|[[William Russell Birch]], "Woodlands, the Seat of Mr. Wm. Hamilton, Pennsylva.," 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, ''The Country Seats of the United States'' (2009), p. 69, pl. 14.
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Image:0050.jpg|[[Hugh Reinagle]], ''Elgin Garden on Fifth Avenue'', c. 1812.  
 
Image:0050.jpg|[[Hugh Reinagle]], ''Elgin Garden on Fifth Avenue'', c. 1812.  
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Image:0716.jpg|Alvan Fisher, ''The Vale, Seat of Theodore Lyman'', 1820–25.
 
Image:0716.jpg|Alvan Fisher, ''The Vale, Seat of Theodore Lyman'', 1820–25.
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Image:0049.jpg|[[William Satchwell Leney]], ''View of the Botanic Garden of the State of New York'', 1828.  
 
Image:0049.jpg|[[William Satchwell Leney]], ''View of the Botanic Garden of the State of New York'', 1828.  
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Image:0938.jpg|[[James E. Teschemacher]], "A green-house constructed at the centre of a cottage," in ''Horticultural Register and Gardener's Magazine'' vol. 1 (May 1, 1835), opp. p. 157.
 
Image:0938.jpg|[[James E. Teschemacher]], "A green-house constructed at the centre of a cottage," in ''Horticultural Register and Gardener's Magazine'' vol. 1 (May 1, 1835), opp. p. 157.
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Image:0997.jpg|Anonymous, "Design for a Flower Garden," in [[A. J. Downing]], ed., ''Horticulturist'' 2, no. 12 (June 1848): p. 558, fig. 67.
 
Image:0997.jpg|Anonymous, "Design for a Flower Garden," in [[A. J. Downing]], ed., ''Horticulturist'' 2, no. 12 (June 1848): p. 558, fig. 67.
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Image:0743.jpg|[[John Izard Middleton]], Greenhouse, 1813.
 
Image:0743.jpg|[[John Izard Middleton]], Greenhouse, 1813.
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Image:0464.jpg|[[Nicolino Calyo]], ''Harlem, the Country House of Dr. Edmondson'', 1834.
 
Image:0464.jpg|[[Nicolino Calyo]], ''Harlem, the Country House of Dr. Edmondson'', 1834.
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Image:0218.jpg|[[Augustus Weidenbach]], ''Belvedere'', c. 1858.  
 
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Image:0019.jpg|Anonymous, House Lot, Gardens, and Orchard of Bacon's Castle (after an 1843 survey plan), 1911, in Peter Martin, ''The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson'' (1991), p. 10. fig. 5.
 
Image:0019.jpg|Anonymous, House Lot, Gardens, and Orchard of Bacon's Castle (after an 1843 survey plan), 1911, in Peter Martin, ''The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson'' (1991), p. 10. fig. 5.

Revision as of 18:49, February 25, 2015

(Green house, Green-house)
See also: Conservatory, Hothouse, Nursery, Orangery

History

Texts

Usage

"I went... to visit Robert Morris’s greenhouse [serre chaud] near Philadelphia. It had very beautiful specimens of orange trees, lemon trees, and pineapples.]
  • c. September 6, 1797, A Schedule of Property within the State of Pennsylvania Conveyed by Robert Morris, to the Hon. James Biddle, Esq. And Mr. William Bell, in Trust for the use and account of the Pennsylvania Property Company [2]
"An Estate called the Hills Situate in the Northern Liberties, near the City of Philadelphia, containing Three hundred acres of land highly improved, and on which are erected a large and elegant greenhouse, with a hot house of fifty feet on each side; on the back front a House for a gardener, with one large and five small rooms, also two large rooms on the back or north front of the hot house, with an excellent vault under the green houses, and a covered room for preserving roots & c in winter; the whole being a strong stone building, with the necessary glasses, casements, fruit trees, plants shrubs & c in good order; a well of excellent water, with a pump close to the north front the whole enclosed within a large Garden stocked with fruit trees of the best kind &c. & c."

Citations

Images

Inscribed

  • Oscar Alexander Lawson (artist), Ely (engraver), Rob[er]t Buist, Nurseryman & Florist (calling card), n.d.

  • 1285.jpg

    n.d.

  • 1728

  • 1733

  • 1755

  • Samuel Vaughan, Plan of the buildings and grounds of Mount Vernon, 1787.

  • 1791

  • December 11, 1791

  • Anonymous, “Declaration for Assurance No. 2049” Insurance Policy Drawings of Mount Vernon, 1803.

  • William Dandridge Peck, Plan of the botanic garden of Mr. Curtis, Newbury, Mass., Feb. 19, 1805.

  • June 1806

  • Charles Willson Peale, Letter to Angelica Peale describing his garden at Belfield, November 22, 1815.

  • 1826

  • 1826

  • Anonymous, "Map of Mr. Andrew Parmentier's Horticultural and Botanic Garden, at Brooklyn, Long Island, Two Miles From the City of New York," c. 1828.

  • January 1836

  • 1839

  • Alexander Walsh, "Plan of a Garden," in New England Farmer 19, no. 39 (Mar. 31, 1841): 308.

  • Anonymous, “Ground Plan of a portion of Downing’s Botanic Gardens and Nurseries,” in Magazine of Horticulture 7 (Nov. 1841): 404.

  • Joshua Barney, Map of the Hampton Estate, 1843.

  • 1846

  • 1847

  • 1848

  • June 17, 1848

  • Anonymous, "Plan of a small Green-House" and "Section of the Same," in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 3, no. 6 (December 1848): figs. 32 and 33.

  • Anonymous, “Design for a Country House,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 4, no. 6 (December 1849): pl. opp. p. 249.

  • 1850

  • Frances Palmer, "Design for a Vinery & Green House," in William H. Ranlett, The Architect (1851), vol. 2, pl. 43.

  • Frances Palmer, "Cottage Villa in the Anglo Swiss Style," in William H. Ranlett, The Architect (1851), vol. 2, pl. 60, design 52.

  • Frances Palmer, "Cottage Villa in the earliest English Style," in William H. Ranlett, The Architect (1851), vol. 2, pl. 60, design 53.

  • G. & F. Bill (firm), Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon the home of Washington, c. 1859.

  • 1123.jpg

    1887

Associated

  • Anonymous, Mount Clare, n.d.

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    Anonymous, Mount Clare, n.d.

  • n.d.

  • n.d.

  • n.d.

  • n.d.

  • Edward Savage, The East Front of Mount Vernon, c. 1787-92.

  • c. 1792

  • Jeremiah Paul, “Robert Morris’ Seat on Schuylkill,” July 20, 1794.

  • c. 1799

  • c. 1800

  • John Archibald Woodside, Lemon Hill, 1807.

  • William Russell Birch, "Woodlands, the Seat of Mr. Wm. Hamilton, Pennsylva.," 1808, in William Russell Birch and Emily Cooperman, The Country Seats of the United States (2009), p. 69, pl. 14.

  • c. 1810

  • Hugh Reinagle, Elgin Garden on Fifth Avenue, c. 1812.

  • Charles Willson Peale, View of the garden at Belfield, 1816.

  • Alvan Fisher, The Vale, Seat of Theodore Lyman, 1820–25.

  • 1827

  • William Satchwell Leney, View of the Botanic Garden of the State of New York, 1828.

  • Anonymous, Rose-Lawn, residence of Edgar M. Vanderburgh, c. 1830-40, in Alice B. Lockwood, Gardens of Colony and State (1931), vol. 1, p. 296.

  • James E. Teschemacher, "A green-house constructed at the centre of a cottage," in Horticultural Register and Gardener's Magazine vol. 1 (May 1, 1835), opp. p. 157.

  • c. 1840

  • c. 1840-47

  • 1143.jpg

    c. 1845

  • December 23, 1846

  • 1847

  • 1847

  • 1847

  • 1847

  • Anonymous, "Design for a Flower Garden," in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 12 (June 1848): p. 558, fig. 67.

  • Anonymous, "Cottage Residence of Wm. H. Aspinwall, Esq.," in A. J. Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1849), pl. opp. p. 51, fig. 8.

  • Anonymous, A Country House in the Pointed Style, in A. J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses (1850), pl. opp. p. 304, fig. 133.

  • Anonymous, “Rural Gothic Villa,” in A. J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses (1850), pl. opp. p. 322, fig. 148.

  • Anonymous, Capitol Under Construction, View Looking East Toward the Capitol From Third Street Vicinity, July 1860.

  • Middleton, Strobridge & Co. (engraver), "Mount Vernon, the home of Washington," c. 1861.

Attributed

  • Anonymous, “Vauxhall Garden,” 1803. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  • John Izard Middleton, Greenhouse, 1813.

  • c. 1820-1830

  • 1826

  • Nicolino Calyo, Harlem, the Country House of Dr. Edmondson, 1834.

  • Joseph Jacques Ramée, Estate plan for Calverton [detail], c. 1816, in Parcs & jardins (c. 1836), pl. 1.

  • Anonymous, “The Shrubbery and Flower Garden,” in The Cultivator 5 (Apr. 1848): 114.

  • Augustus Weidenbach, Belvedere, c. 1858.

  • 1460.jpg

    1870s

  • Anonymous, House Lot, Gardens, and Orchard of Bacon's Castle (after an 1843 survey plan), 1911, in Peter Martin, The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson (1991), p. 10. fig. 5.

Notes

  1. ↑ Moreau de St. Méry's American Journey (1793-1798), trans. and ed. Kenneth Roberts and Anna M. Roberts (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947) 240, view on Zotero.
  2. ↑ A Schedule of Property within the State of Pennsylvania Conveyed by Robert Morris, to the Hon. James Biddle, Esq. And Mr. William Bell, in Trust for the use and account of the Pennsylvania Property Company, c. September 6, 1797, Autograph Collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, original MS reproduced Robbins, 1987, 136, view on Zotero.

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